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Golden Spirals and Scalp Whorls: Nature’s Own Design for Rapid Expansion
This paper documents what began as an exercise in curiosity—logarithmic spiral designs abound in nature—in galaxies, flowers, even pinecones, and on human scalps as whorls. Why are humans the only primates to have whorls on the scalp? Is the formation of scalp whorls mechanical or genetic? A mechani...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27583520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162026 |